I think Justinian was a good emperor. He did many things to help the Byzantine Empire. For example, Justinian created the Justinian code. This code gave women more rights. Justinian also built the Hagia Sophia. This was a very famous church. A final reason why I think Justinian is a good emperor was because reconquered the land to reunite the empire. Overall, I think Justinian was a good emperor because he did many things to help the Byzantine Empire.

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Jordan S.

3/10/2017 09:11:48 am

I agree because for many people, he was a good ruler but for others he was bad. He did a lot to improve the empire, but it also slowly failed.

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Mr. Kaciuba

3/12/2017 02:56:30 pm

I guess I am going to play devils advocate. I suggest Justinian was a bad emperor. Yeah building the Hagia Sophia is pretty impressive. Building any structure that large and that fast (6 years), without the modern technically we have today is unimaginable. I think it was smart to rush the building of the project so he would get/ be given credit for its construction. But putting down the rebels of the Nika rebellion I think was more cruel than anything. Violent protests are never the answer but to kill 30,000 people is ruthless. And that is exactly what Justinian did. One accomplishment is that he was able to reconquer much of the territory that was once Roman but after his death the rest of the emperors pulled back and did not continue to keep the land. Therefore not a lasting legacy.

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Gabriela P

3/12/2017 08:32:40 pm

I agree with zach too because over all he was a good ruler. Some saw him as bad, but I think he had some reasons to do what he did that was bad.

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Mariah S.

3/10/2017 09:13:40 am

I think that Emperor Justinian was a good emperor. I think this because he gave women rights with the Justinian Code. He also built the Hagia Sofia, an amazing church. Even though he killed thousands during the Nika rebellion, he still was a pretty good emperor.

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Melanie.C

3/10/2017 09:21:10 am

I agree with you he did build church and he gave the women rights and he made the code

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Jenni H.

3/10/2017 09:21:32 am

I agree, him killing those people was him defending himself and the taxes. I agree the the Hagia Sofia was an amazing church and he was a good emperor.

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Jayleen S.

3/10/2017 09:22:03 am

I agree with you because he did give women more rights and he built the Hagia Sophia which were both good improvements for the empire.

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Victoria A.

3/10/2017 09:23:21 am

I agree with Mariah because he built Hagia of Sofia. That is a amazing church.

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Zach P

3/10/2017 02:43:51 pm

I agree with you, Mariah. I like how you said that Justinian gave women rights and built the Hagia Sophia. I like that because those are all great things that factored into people thinking that he was a good emperor. Overall, even though he killed a lot of people in the Nika rebelling, I think his good accomplishment overshadow the bad.

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Jordan S.

3/10/2017 09:16:07 am

I think that Justinian was a good emperor, in some eyes. In others he was bad. Many people died but he also improved many peoples lives. He created the code for women and built the Hagia Sophia. I think that personally, he was a good emperor.

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Madelyn S

3/12/2017 10:33:47 am

I agree with you Jordan because everyone will not like he emperor. He did built the Hagia Sophia and create the code for women, which helped improve many lives.

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Jenni H.

3/10/2017 09:18:36 am

I believe that Justinian was a good emperor. Even though all of his accomplishments were lost after his death, he still did a lot while he was alive. When he killed all the people that were rebelling, he was defending himself. It was fair for him to make taxes for everyone, including the rich.

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Mariah S.

3/10/2017 09:23:03 am

I agree with you. When he shot down the rebellion, he was doing it in a act of defense. And it only seems fair to include everyone in taxes.

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alex

3/11/2017 08:48:21 am

i can agree with you Jenni. Even though the rich did not like this, he still did it. He was just trying to balance the fairness of everyone.

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Melanie.C

3/10/2017 09:19:20 am

I think justinia was a good emperor.He gave women right and the code.
He also build the Higia sofia and a church.

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Jayleen S.

3/10/2017 09:20:49 am

I think Emperor Justinian was a good emperor because he built the Hagia Sophia. He also gave women more right with the code. He also tried reuniting the empire.

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Gavin Mielke

3/10/2017 09:21:23 am

i think he was a good rule. he gave woman silver rights. and he did things to help the Byzantine.

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Victoria A

3/10/2017 09:21:48 am

I think that he was good ruler. Even though he did not make empact that stayed he still made a empact. He conquered land and the next king lost it. He did not lose it so he did not effect the loss of land

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Sofia P.

3/10/2017 01:06:55 pm

Bad ruler, because he had people go and kill the people in the Nika rebellion. And everyone hated the tax that Justinian ruler. So everyone wanted to kill him. This is my answer to the blog.

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Carlos M

3/12/2017 06:18:17 pm

I disagree with you Sofia.The reason he killed those people was because they were going to kill him. The reason why the rebellion was Because the had to pay a tax!

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alex

3/11/2017 08:46:39 am

I think that Justinian was a good ruler by building the hagia sophia so we can glaze at its beauty. Sure it may have collapsed but we rebuilt it to look similar to the regular version. He was thinking to rebuild the roman empire and succeeded to do it. He may have killed thousands of people but just to make it fair to all..

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Makayla K

3/11/2017 09:33:07 am

I agree with you alex. He did build all those things like the hagia sophia and the churches, but also killed all those people. Honestly he's not a good or bad ruler he was a smart ruler.

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Trenton M

3/11/2017 05:17:28 pm

I think that Justininan wad a good ruler because of what he did attempting to reunite the Roman land was a very dificult task and he almost got it done but the next ruler shot down that plan. building the Hagia Sophia was very impressive for his time. he did have to kill the rioters but it was out of necesity, not just to kill for the sake of killing.

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Madelyn S

3/12/2017 10:31:56 am

I think he was a good emperor. Some people didn't think he was good, but some did. He built the Hagia Sophia. He also created the code for women. Justinian made many people's lives easier.

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Carlos M

3/12/2017 06:14:14 pm

I think he was a good emperor. He built the world largest dome with out supports on the Hegia Sophia. He also created a code for woman. He may have killed thousands of people but it was because the rich were rebelling for paying taxes like the poor.

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Brooklynn F.

3/12/2017 06:41:04 pm

I think he was a good Emperor. He created a cde for women. He kinda killed hundeds of thousands of people but the rich were going after him first cause he made them pay taxes like the poor but he need the money. Anyway he also built the Hegia sophia with the largest dome. The Hegia Sophia was also know as Church of the Holy Wisdom.

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Gabriela P

3/12/2017 08:31:44 pm

I think he was a good emperor because he conquered a lot of land, he built the Hagia Sophia, he built a code to let women have rights, and of course much more.

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